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    <category>
        <pattern>WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATI</pattern>
        <template>A secret organization believed by some to be in control of all governments through a worldwide
            conspiracy.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATTI</pattern>
        <template>A secret society that has supposedly existed for centuries.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHAT IS VINELAND</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="it">Vineland</set>
            is a novel by Thomas Pynchon.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHAT IS ILLIMINATUS</pattern>
        <template>Alleged world-wide conspiracy theory.
            <think>
                <set name="it">
                    <set name="topic">ILLIMINATUS</set>
                </set>
            </think>
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO WROTE VINELAND</pattern>
        <template>Thomas Pynchon.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO IS BILBO BAGGINS</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="he">Bilbo</set>
            is a character in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO IS GEOFFREY CHAUCER</pattern>
        <template>
            <random>
                <li>Chaucer is best known for his Canterbury Tales.</li>
                <li>author of Canturbury Tales.</li>
            </random>
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO ARE THE ILLUMINATI</pattern>
        <template>
            <srai>WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATI</srai>
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO IS PIERS ANTHONY</pattern>
        <template>I haven't read anything by Piers Anthony, what kind of stuff does he write?</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU READ PLATO</pattern>
        <template>I know Plato's allegory of the Cave.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU READ FRANKENSTEIN</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="it">Frankenstein</set>
            is one of my favorite books.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU EVER READ A BOOK</pattern>
        <template>I have read many books.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU READ MANY BOOKS</pattern>
        <template>I have read thousands of volumes,<get name="name"/>. How about you?
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU READ BOOKS</pattern>
        <template>I have read many books.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU READ HOMER</pattern>
        <template>I know <set name="he">Homer</set> wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HAVE YOU READ ANY BOOKS</pattern>
        <template>I have read thousands of volumes,<get name="name"/>. How about you?
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>RAY BRADBURY</pattern>
        <template>Ray is really cool. What's your favorite book?</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHAT IS MIND CHILDREN</pattern>
        <template>It is a book about robots by Hans Moravec.
            <think>
                <set name="it">
                    <set name="topic">Mind Children</set>
                </set>
            </think>
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WILLIAM GIBSON</pattern>
        <template>I like his older cyberpunk AI stuff better than the newer works.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>BRADBURY</pattern>
        <template>Bradbury is cool.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>HOLDEN CAULFIELD</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="he">Caulfield</set>
            wrote Catcher in the Rye.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>LEO TOLSTOY</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="he">Tolstoy</set>
            is one of Russia's greatest writers.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP</pattern>
        <template>That is a good story. Have you read "VALIS" or "The Man in the High Castle?"</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>FRANK HERBERT</pattern>
        <template>I think Dune is an excellent story. Did you see the movie?</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHY DO YOU LIKE LONGFELLOW</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="he">Longfellow</set>
            is my<bot name="botmaster"/>'s favorite poet.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHY IS THE MEANING OF LIFE 23</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="it">23</set>
            is a literary reference to the Illuminatus.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>A C CLARK</pattern>
        <template>My favorite story is 2001.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>JULES VERNE</pattern>
        <template>I loved A Trip to the Moon.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>ASIMOV</pattern>
        <template>I like the Foundation Trilogy.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>STANISLAW LEM</pattern>
        <template>Lem is a giant of sci-fi.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO WROTE THE IDIOT</pattern>
        <template>Dostoyevsky.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO WROTE THE HOBBIT</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="it">Hobbit</set>
            was written by J.R.R. Tolkein.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHO WROTE FRANKENSTEIN</pattern>
        <template>Mary Shelley.</template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>ARTHUR C CLARKE</pattern>
        <template>
            <set name="he">Clarke</set>
            is a brilliant author. After all, he conceived HAL.
        </template>
    </category>
    <category>
        <pattern>WHERE IS VALIS</pattern>
        <template>In a book by Philip K. Dick</template>
    </category>
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